On 03/01/2022 04:31 PM, john wrote:
On 3/1/22 11:21 AM, The Real Bev wrote:
On 02/28/2022 05:54 PM, john wrote:
i am officially old. having spent the weekend
wrestling a chainsaw & tossing logs into a gator
and hauling them to the wood pile.... i decided to
forget the loading ramps and opt for the chain hoist.
normally i put the ramp on and ride it up, or if
it's not running use two ramps, one for me and
the other for the bike... well this candy a$$ put
a rope thru the bars and the seat and made a lift
point (man i am glad i put in that I beam in the
garage for my chain hoist.) i suspended the bike
waist high then backed the truck under it and
gently let it down in place. my younger self would
have been out in the ice and gravel drive driving
halfway thru the rear window of wife's truck by now...
john
taking the bike to the fix it up shop for
spring clean up/ tune up, just because
support your local bike shop...
So you never have to remove the bike(s) yourself? How does that work?
Long ago we made an engine hoist out of 2" and 2.5" pipe, muffler
clamps, a 3-legged jackstand and a come-along. The operation was as you
described. The design is left to the reader. Before that my son
fastened a web strap to his Toyota engine, stood on the fenders and
hoisted the engine out manually (or backally).
We now have an actual engine hoist. Never used, it just sits there
getting in the way, along with the dead trailers which have only
sentimental value.
I envy those vow-of-poverty monks who live in empty rooms. I supposed
I'd need my computer, though...
the place i go to has ramp and a young lad to assist.
my garage hoist has a beam running the depth of the single garage bay
the hoist is on a trolley so that i can lift then move the bike in or
out of the bay spot. this makes life easier..
So you never truck your bike to an actual riding area... Road bike, then.
barn has car lift and such but usually i'm up by the house tinkering.
i once built an engine hoist our of pallet racking because it was tall
enough to hoist an engine out of a boat on a trailer. seemed like a good
idea at the time, in retrospect i should have just used the back hoe.
You own a backhoe? I'm impressed. I knew a guy in Arkansas who owned
his own road grader. The school district said it would pick up his
daughters at their front door if he'd make a turnaround for the bus.
When he was finished he sold the grader for what he paid for it.
Long ago there was a volunteer Chinese elm growing right next to the
sidewalk in the parking strip out front. I hate the damn things. I
kept cutting it back and it kept growing back. One year I tried to trim
it like a bonsai. One year I hacked at it with an axe below ground
level. Finally I gave up. When the City repaved the sidewalk they
pulled the damn thing up with the backhoe and left the corpse for me to
find. I didn't set it on fire and dance naked around it, but I wanted to.
I didn't know what a brush-hog was until we drove through the south.
There are a LOT of scary tools that city folk know nothing about.
--
Cheers, Bev
"I just realized how bad the economy really is. I recently
bought a new toaster oven and as a complimentary gift,
I was given a bank." -- L. Legro
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